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From: tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: How come God doesn't affect Dave?
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Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 01:58:01 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 21 01:58:01 1985
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> From ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank) Thu Sep 19 15:59:21 1985
> Message-ID: <11738@rochester.UUCP>

> THEY resort to personal attacks?  What about YOU?  Categorically describing 
> as 'assholes' those whom you've known only over the net is a qualified
> professional diagnosis???  Hmmmm.
>
> Las year I couden even spell scyioanlyst, this year I are one.

Quoting out of context is such fun, isn't it?  Before condemning the people
who questioned Mr. Zimmerman's mental health, I explicitly stated that the
judgment was based on my experience as a net junkie for several years.  No
statement or implication of any professional authority was made.  But it's
so much easier to dimiss my statements if you just ignore that little fact,
and fail to reproduce the preliminary qualification when quoting me so
others will be misled as well.  What a charmer you are, Mr. Frank; we could
all take a lesson in intellectual honesty from you, yes indeed.

As for the ethics of personal condemnation, when people initiate personal
condemnation, then it is ethical to respond with same.  The people who
questioned Mr. Zimmerman's mental health clearly initiated personal attacks,
and therefore after objectively demonstrating their personal attacks to be
unfounded, I had no compunctions about making a =well-grounded= personal
attack upon them.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
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